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  1. Malachi
    A bit off-topic, sorry for that, Prater A plan like this would be more than sufficient to build a ship - or a 3D model for NA - including the masts and spars, if you know the length between perpendiculars (the straight lines at the bow and stern): This is the official draught for the Seine by Forfait, by the way.
  2. Malachi
    You have the inboard profile. The sheer usually shows much more detail (position of the whales, quarter galleries etc) and the most important part of the whole draught, the body plan.
  3. Malachi
    No problem, that´s what the community is for And here´s the Rattlesnake ( to be added): http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/84323.html Makes you kind of wonder how the hell they worked those 4-pounders under the Quarterdeck and Forecastle, there´s just 4 feet of headroom. Edit: complete sheer for the Trinc and Bellona: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/84700.html http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/81148.html
  4. Malachi
    Renommée as captured: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/82919.html And after a rebuild: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/384025.html Complete sheer plan for Slade´s Coventry-class (Cerberus) http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/83192.html By the way, why does the ingame Cerberus have a french style transom (after the early 1760s)? Should look more like this imo: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66277.html http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/82961.html
  5. Malachi
    As much as I hate to quote myself, Bungee And the Concorde-class Hermione of 1779 was designed by Henri Chevillard sr. as far as I know.
  6. Malachi
    The Unité you posted is the Unité/Gracieuse of 1786, not our Surprise/Unité. This is the plan for the in-game ship: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/82858.html
  7. Malachi
    Me likes Thought a bit more about this and a name pool + player-given nicknames seems a nice balance between historical accuracy and customisation, especially if there´s a toggle in the options to hide/show nicknames of other players (I for one certainly don´t want to see the creative efforts of my fellow captains ). Same could be done with colour schemes, so one could sail a pink-white frigate Minerva 'OMFG Hello Kitty' while others with the hide options on just see a standart black-yellow ocre ship called Minerva.
  8. Malachi
    They renamed Unité because they already had a Unité (ex-Gracieuse). And the RN wasn´t choosy when it came to names anyway, His Majesty´s Ship Révolutionnaire is a good example for this But I´m all for a pool of 'approved' names for each nation. If we want more customisation, maybe allow for player-given nicknames? Could be tied to x number of battles won or something.
  9. Malachi
    'Our' Renommée was launched in 1744
  10. Malachi
    Huh? Renommée´s (near-) sister ships were Medée and Sirène. Haran´s Galathée class started in 1779.
  11. Malachi
    The model has 8 (4-pounders?) per side, I think. The port the bow most probably is just a bridle port. Anyway, the ship on the screen shot looks georgeous
  12. Malachi
    The 'MONOGRAPHIE DU GROS VENTRE' shows her pierced for 5 guns per side A flush deck is not as 'modern' as one might think. Some early 18th century british 20- and 24 gun ships had it, as well the danish 8-pounder frigates Raae and Höyenhald (1707 and 1708).
  13. Malachi
    Time for an update with a true beauty, the danish 12-pounder frigate Christiansborg of 1758:
  14. Malachi
    That´s most probably the french merchant ship Gros Ventre ('Big Belly') of 1766. Same designer as the Belle Poule, by the way: Leon-Michel Guignance. Edit: Nope. The Gros Ventre had just 10 guns. So the hull of the BP with the stern of the Gros Ventre? Could be...: http://modelisme.arsenal.free.fr/artdumodelisme/Le%20Gros%20Ventre/index.html
  15. Malachi
    Now that´s a model I haven´t seen for a long time. A pity the old PotBS shipyard forum is no longer accessible, I really enjoyed your build logs. You had one about the Astrée of 1728, too, if I remember correctly?
  16. Malachi
    Renommée sailed 11 knots close-hauled under double topsails and 13 knots reaching during her sailing trials. However, the captain 'was sure she would do 15 knots [...] with a good wind 2 points abaft the beam and a full sail'. So there´s no official confirmation for 14 or 15 knots, just the captain´s guestimate. And I didn´t know that there was a sailing report for the Aurora, although I`m not surprised that she was that fast as Lowestoffe was built to her lines. Is this the only page or is it me just being stupid
  17. Malachi
    Mea culpa, IA I´m slowy digging my way through 'Las Fregatas de Vela 1650 - 1850' with google translate and my books and plan collection are a wee bit francocentric, so my knowledge outside the Royal Navy/ Marine Royale is rather limited.
  18. Malachi
    I´d love to know where the info regarding the 14 knots is coming from. Only a couple of frigates in the 18th /early 19th century reached that speed (the Lowestoffe, some of the Alarms and Livelys, Endymion and maaaaaaaybe the Renommée). But a pirate vessel?
  19. Malachi
    Chapman´s drafts are 20 or 30 too young...and show a bit too much english influence. Well, I have to do model the internal framings to know where and how big the windows were, how big the taffarel was etc. And 'generic' doesn´t really apply to the french designs in the early 18th century, when ship sterns could look like this I have a couple of contemporary drawings by Caffieri, the master carver (and responsible for the decorations of the ships built there) at Brest at the time when L'Amazone had her rebuild, so I think I can whip something together that wouldn´t totally look out of place. I may adapt this concept for Amazone:
  20. Malachi
    So is es The stern is taking shape and the quarterdeck and upper deck are in: As the plan doesn´t show the stern and quarter galleries, I have to reconstruct the internal arrangement to guestimate what the stern could have looked like. So far, it seems probable that she had five windows with the middle one being a false light, possibly covered by a badge or something similiar.
  21. Malachi
    Blender for modelling, GIMP for textures
  22. Malachi
    You´re doing really well considering you´re fairly new to 3D modelling But you might want to make the port for tiller a bit bigger, otherwise it´d be a tad difficult to move it. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture_Baking Basically, you 'copy' the information of a high poly model onto a low poly
  23. Malachi
    And tiller it is...
  24. Malachi
    Already thought about the shipyard thingy, would be a lot of work to do all the internal framing. It´s certainly tempting, though. Update: Got the planking up to the whales done. Still have to work out some issues (e.g. at the wing transom), but that shouldn´t be much of a problem. Still trying to figure out if this ship had a steering wheel or just a tiller on the quarterdeck. Most probably the latter, but the angle of the sternpost isn´t quite right for that. Mhmh....
  25. Malachi
    That´s why we can bake normal textures Really enjoying this build, nice job so far, WM
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